The American College of Radiology (ACR) has appointed Dr. Quynh-Thu Le as chair of the Head and Neck Cancer Committee for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG).
Le is professor and chair of the department of radiation oncology at Stanford University. She has been a member of the Head and Neck Cancer Committee since 2004 and will assume the chair role beginning in January 2012, according to the ACR, which administers RTOG.
In other RTOG news, Dr. Richard Jordan, PhD, will direct the RTOG Biospecimen Resource at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Jordan is a professor of oral pathology, pathology, and radiation oncology at UCSF and is director of the Oral Pathology Diagnostic Laboratory and the UCSF Oral Cancer Tissue Bank. He will replace Dr. Frederic Waldman, PhD, as director.
